VAX to VAX: A Practical Guide to Connecting VAXs and Their Peripherals

Corey Sandler, Tom Badgett

Wiley, May 30, 1990 - Computers - 283 pages

Users of third party workstations and personal computers need a concise, inexpensive guide to the general concepts of digital networking. This book provides a broad overview of VAX to VAX communications and dicusses how the VAX architecture can fit with other systems, including PCs and Macintosh machines. Providing you with a firm foundation, Vax to Vax will move you from stand-alone hardware to fully networked environments. Includes a practical network checklist to help you get started.

Contents

• DECWINDOWS: 25
• NETWORKING IN THE: 47
• DECnet: 55
• Network Maintenance: 68
• SERIAL COMMUNICATIONS: 97
• NETWORK CHECKLIST: 111
• PCVAX COMMUNICATIONS: 137
• OTHER COMMUNICATIONS: 157
• NetWare: 166
• Remote Diagnostics Communications: 173
• COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY: 179
• APPENDIX A SERIAL COMMUNICATIONS: 195
• Centronics Standard: 202
• GLOSSARY: 219
• INDEX: 275

Bibliographic information

• Title: VAX to VAX: A Practical Guide to Connecting VAXs and Their Peripherals
• Authors: Corey Sandler, Tom Badgett
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Wiley, 1990
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Jun 28, 2008
• ISBN: 047151506X, 9780471515067
• Length: 283 pages
• Subjects: Computers / General